I've done a first pass on https://notes.kde.org/p/applications_19.08_new_features and sent around emails to people asking them to add more. In the worst-case scenario that what's currently in there is all we get, I think there are still enough juicy goodies for a beefy release announcement (can something be both juicy and beefy)?

I've done a first pass on https://notes.kde.org/p/applications_19.08_new_features and sent around emails to people asking them to add more. In the worst-case scenario that what's currently in there is all we get, I think there are still enough juicy goodies for a beefy release announcement (can something be both juicy and beefy)?

Juicy beef?

I have written the intro and uploaded it to the pad @skadinna and I are gradually working through the list of changes and transforming them into paragraphs, trimming off stuff that is, let's say, less exciting (like the smaller bug fixes). You can follow progress of that on this pad. I don't recommend touching anything there yet, because it is very rough drafts what we are working with and we may be working on sections of text offline. I hope to finish it over the weekend.

This got delayed because I have been drafted into organising promo for the Linux App Summit and that has eaten up a large chunk of my time over the last three days.

I will convert the video to webm and add a mp4 as fallback for the ios users.
For the caption, i wanted to share the same content for the alt and the caption. The alt text should be more descriptive and is intended for screen reader so I think adding Screenshot of in the alt text is useful .

Is MP4 the right format we want to promote? Even if we are allowed to distribute MP4 files without paying royalities, we shouldn't. There are royality-free alternatives.

We checked and it turns out that x264/mp4 is licensed under GPLv2. As WebM and OGV do not work on all browsers (for example, Safari) we were wondering if you would be okay if we went back to MP4, as it poses no legal risk.

Is MP4 the right format we want to promote? Even if we are allowed to distribute MP4 files without paying royalities, we shouldn't. There are royality-free alternatives.

We checked and it turns out that x264/mp4 is licensed under GPLv2. As WebM and OGV do not work on all browsers (for example, Safari) we were wondering if you would be okay if we went back to MP4, as it poses no legal risk.

The license of the encoder and the patent which may cover the format itself are two different issues.